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Darren Lehmann may feel aggrieved at his treatment by Cricket AustraliaPHILIP BROWN

Gideon Haigh

Last updated at 11:25AM, August 25 2013

Five Tests matches is a long time for cricketers to spend in one another’s
company, and some tempers in these Ashes have frayed in this last week. How
seriously it is hard to tell.

The attention has fallen naturally on the public demonstrations, with the
weekend papers busily anatomizing Friday’s exchanges between Shane Watson,
Michael Clarke and Kevin Pietersen, which are as impressive on the page as
the transcript of an “Am-not/Are-too” debate between five-year-olds.

Watson, it is reported, was the provocateur, momentarily abandoning his
lugubrious mien to describe new batsman Ian Bell as a “child”. Pretty proud
of himself